“Obama should remember the rule that you should never hire somebody you can’t fire.”

Clintons

Clintons

The Big He will only want to help the president-elect at every turn, furnishing not just a secretary of state but advice and consent on everything else. Once he and the new secretary of state move their things back to Pennsylvania Avenue (Barack and Michelle get the Lincoln Bedroom) he’ll always be close by, the man who came to dinner. The Obama transition team rightly professes concern about Bubba’s global financial entanglements, some more mysterious than others. His Clinton Global Initiative has set out to cure AIDS, malaria and poverty in Africa – not by this Christmas but surely by the next – and is collecting billions of dollars from foreign governments to do it.

So far the Clintons are resisting efforts to inspect the particulars of these gifts and questions about whether a secretary of state with a husband hustling billions from governments a secretary of state deals with is such a good idea.

But not to worry. Bubba would never fib about important things, like money and sex. If he says everything is OK, that ought to be good enough. Nevertheless, the best advice Barack Obama has heard about his most important appointment comes from John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations: “Obama should remember the rule that you should never hire somebody you can’t fire.”

SOURCE: The Washington Times

Tell me where I’m wrong, the 2009 White House is starting to look more and more like a Bill Clinton adminstration. It also highlights Barack Obama’s inexperience.

Obama stated that “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military.

What is there to be afraid of? 

Most of us have heard Obama state that “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the military.  This alone is enough to send shivers up an informed spine, but it gets even worse when you hear the specifics.  Obama intends to use a radical activist group he helped found called “Public Allies” as the model for, as IBD puts it, “. . . his Orwellian program, ‘Universal Voluntary Public Service.’”

IBD reports on the inducements used to entice young people into this national service corps and its true aim:

. . . they’ll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about ‘social change’ through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul “The Red” Alinsky.

With his oratorical skills and a complicit media, the president-elect will be able to sell this scheme with talk about security, equality and liberating the downtrodden.  “It’s the best way to combat crime, hopelessness and a lack of opportunity in the inner city,” he will say.  “And I know this well from my days as a community organizer on Chicago’s mean streets.” He will tout how it provides health care, education and skills to the have-nots, and his media-oiled silver tongue’s salesmanship will prevail.  It will be sold with a low-end price tag, and his fellow-traveler controlled Houses will echo the message and deliver the votes.  Of course, just like Social Security and a trove of other government programs, its cost will make a mockery of predictions.  But Uncle Sam’s budget projections aren’t designed for budgets, but for marketing.

As always happens with such groups, program members will eventually be identified with some colloquial and catchy label.  I can’t tell you what it will be, only that it won’t be Brownshirts or Blackshirts.  And the official name of the program itself may even be changed a few years hence.

As with the Public Allies program, members will have to attend seminars and “retreats” where they will be indoctrinated with leftist ideology.  Aside from learning how America is a “racist and “sexist” country, they will be taught that she is also ridden with “heterosexism,” which, IBD writes, “. . . a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of ‘capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege.’” They will be taught that these evils can never be vanquished until every last vestige of traditional America is utterly destroyed. 

The pressure to conform will be immense, as it always is in politically-correct entities.  The corps will have a huge core of true believers, who will act as ideological hammers.  They will preach diversity but practice conformity. 

SOURCE: American politician who could make so many Americans’ blood run cold

If this don’t make you think then nothing will.  Any opinions out there or is being quite the word of the day?  

LINKS:

Rahm Emanuel Talks About the Civilian National Security Force

Obama’s Civilian National Security Force?

Obama wants a 250000 man civilian national security force. Really!

Left and lefter: The One and The Other One vow to “fix up the country;” Plus: Bush’s parting gift to Obama
By Michelle Malkin

Obama already struggling with lobbyist promises (Breaking Promises)

I want you to hear something President-elect Barack Obama said just about a year ago:

“I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won’t work in my White House.”

“That’s what happens when lobbyists set the agenda and that’s why they won’t drown out your voices anymore when I am president of the United States of America.”

The New York times published a list of names — a rather long list of names of people — who are working on Obama’s transition team or who have accepted jobs in his White House who are either former lobbyists or who have close ties to lobbyists.

The Times reports that some of those people were lobbying as recently as this year.

SOURCE

Obama has lied to the American people from the start of his campaign and so what makes anyone think that he will not lie to you now?